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, 1927. of the nb, de* North persons itate of to the C., on or this of their 0MB, Maude •y 15th, July 29 IS it. at It it. nty ttmmt mtm to une sale. Wil- sale w. c. miimtnta VOLUME 7 NUMBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Noi^^ Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company. VASS. N. C FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927. PINE NEEDLES IS FINE BUILDING Far Enough Along to Show Its Size and Architec ture. MATTHEWS WRITES GRAPE INDUSTRY Makes Visit ttf Experimental Station at McBee, S. C. The Pine Needles Inn is far enough along to show the style of its archi- teca.re and the size which it is to attain. The magiiilieent appearance as it stands there on the summit of the ridge, looking out over the Sand hill country for miles in all direc tions, and visible from the surround ing hill tops on all the roads, is striking, while a closer view of it tells at once that this new construc tion marks a new date in the pro gressive story of this community. The architects have done a good job. The new hojse is a reproduc tion of the old Tunor stinactures of the day of Queen Elizabeth, and the designs are tastefully ca.rried out. Rodon brick and a composition trim that looks like marble or limestone afford I he outside material, but be The progress being made in the proposed development of European ,,rapes i.s a pjtential, ojtstanding cash crop fcr the iSaauhili territory of the Carolinas has gained still fuj tiier momentum by a visit to the farm of Mr. W. L. McCoy, at Mc Bee, S. C., by Mr. C. D. Matthews, chairm'an of the Hoi-ticulti ral De partment of the State of North Car olina. Mr. Matthews v.ho has been in hoi-ticulturai extension work for the past 12 years, was very fa/or- ably impressed with the work ac complished and in a letter which he ha? addressed to Mr. J. N. McBride, general agricultural agent, Seaboard Air Liu(' Railway, he has given a i-omplcte review of the results of his inver.tigation, 'together with his opinion of the possibilities the Sand- yond that the general note is stout | h-rritory holds for the future steel construction, concrete iioors and |(^evelopmentt of Europ- hollow tile inside the brick. Abso-' ean grapes. Mr. Matthews’ letter is lutely fire proof from basement to roof this house is also proof against the vagaries of the elements, for the storm or the earthquake, or any oth er force of Nature that could shake it would have to be one of the re- naarkable events. The steel is almost all up now, the fifth story being in the hands of the erectors, and the lioors of concrete will be nearly finished by the time this is printed. The bricklayers are on the second story, and going up with pronounced speed. The struc tural workers will soon have their -ask 'ompleted, and Ihe interio • workers will go forward with parti tions and trim, while the brick lay ers will chase up toward the top fioor with speed when the others are out of their w’ay. Electric work is moving on, and pipe laying, and wat er connections and sewer lines are well in hand. The picture from the upper floors of this new house will be one of the most comprehensive in the South. Pine Needles will step quickly into jts proper place among the resort hotels of the South, and it takes no quoted as follows: “I have been much interested in tht' proposed campaign of the agri- cvitiiral department of the Seaboard ,\ir Lille Raihvay to promote an in dustry in grape growing, based on s. s. CONVENTION EUROPEAN GRAPES HELD AUG. 13-14' FOR SANDHILLS mBSCRIPTION $2.C0 Meeting to Be Held in the Pres byterian Church at Cameron. It is announced by officers of Moore County Sunday School Asso ciation that the annual 'County Sun day School Convention will be held Good Success In the Experi ment in South Car olina. BION H. BUTLER. The Seaboard Airline Railroad is all the time trying out something GO ON RECORDS Sandhills Sixteen Sing for Vic tor Company and Broadcast. Last week The Pilot made mention of a journey out into the world by a group of men from Southern Pines and Pinehurst, the Sandhill Sixteen. that may be beneficial to the Sand- on Saturday and Sunday, August 13 bills, and now has on an experiment ! These men went to New York, Brook lyn, Philadelphia, and to Camden, New Jersey, to sing for radio broad- and 14, in the Presbyterian Church, | at McBee, South Carolina, with Eu- Cameron. ropean grapes. ..Th« Pilot has re- Taking part on the program will j ferred to this work, but I went down be the following well-known Sunday iiot long ago to see personally what School workers: D. W. Sims, Ral- the proposition holds out. At the eigh, General Superintendent of the farm of W. L. McCoy, who is one of North Carolina Sunday School As- the foremost farmers in the Caroli- sociation, and Miss lone Alverson, ' nas, the railroad has undertaken an Raleigh, Young People’s Division experimental vineyard, and there a casting stations, and for the Victor Talking Machine Company. The ex pedition was an amazing success, and the singers would have been welcomed in other places and for a longer stay could they have given more time to their visit at the va- Superintendent of the North Caro-I ^considerable number of grapes of rious points. lina Sunday School Association. In addition to these outside speak ers, several of the best known Sun day School workers in the county will have parts on the program. The convention is interdenominational, and workers from all Sunday schools in the county are invited to partic ipate in the work. The Moore Coun- many varieties are undergoing a right complete and extensive test. Because the European grape will not withstand the phylloxera the grapes at McBee are grafted on native American stocks, and a great varie ty of American stocks have been tried out. It is found that some of the roots of American grapes are ty Sunday School Association under | niuch better than others, and that whose direction the convention is be- some of our native stocks are not ing held, is one of the units of the North Carolina Sunday School As- worth fooling with. But on two or three particular hybrid roots from sociation. Each of the 100 counties j American vines strong European in the State is now organized into a vines are produced, and it is also results secured with European grapes ■ Sunday School Association, [found that many native grapes in their experimental vinsyard con- i charge ot the arrangements for giafted on these same superior American roots are much better than on their own roots. lucted in co-operation with W. L. | tbe convention are R. G. Hutcheson and J. K. McCov. at McBee, S. C. ' Mrs. H. A. BorSc, president and On July 8th I had the opportunity I secretary of the County Sunday | All European grapes do not give of visiting and examing this vine-'Association. These officers i promise at McBee, but a few varie- vard thoroughly, and was much im-! requesting the co-operation of j ties are fruiting well, and are vigor- presed with the promise that the | pastors, superintendents and oth- European type of grapes gives as a ! Sunday School leaders in the ef- ous and if they can hold their grip like they have done for the last basi” <^or a nen- horticTiltu»'?i Indus-i f^rt to make the convention a suc-4ih^*ee years the experiment looks like trv in the Carolina sandhills. ! a good thing. There is no doubt I was particularly interested in , , , , , ... 1 1 J several vears ago, th'^ officers have s?eing how these varieties checked , . Following a custoir inaugurated fficers have announced that again this year a but that the European grape is growing down there in vigorous style, making fruit that is of excel- up from the standpoint of vigor, , . -n i x i productiveness, freedom from ' dis-i J*" be presented to the | lent appearance, size, vigor, growth, eases and insects, and date of rioen- | showing J ^oki vention the largest number ol rep- much promise. The results are so ing, and was agreeably surprised to ; ^ \ ^ i i -n i find varieties of European grapes „f , ^^entatives, sixteen | ears of age , favorable that the railroad will have both table and luice tvpes scoring ,t« the number | a car of grapes and vines on exhi- ^ "■ "■ " ’ " ’ ' ' season, Hamlet, , . , . „ traveled. It is expected that bition a httle later m the high in all these respects. You and i , ^ • n . . . . , , A ^ 'there will be mu<:h friendly compe- which will stop at Cheraw, vour associates have made an ov.t- , 4 m i ^ i u ^ X -1 4-- 'tition tor the pennant among the i Aben een, Vass and Sanford, where standing contribution in establish-: _ i _ ’ . . . . . prophet to foretell that as a center aging this industry in the sandhills ing the adaptability of these to the section, and a real service in encour- Sundav Schools of the County. (f recreation and winter outing the Mid-Pines area will have a high pop ularity before the winter is through. With the Pinehurst influence behind the project, and with all the advant ages that the Pine Needles will enjoy in surroundings, management, and financial backing and with the remarkable golf course that has been alreadv created the Midlands J fTmiMTV TOR A fro (Continued on Page Three.) The future success of the sandhills ?/'ction. from an agricultural view point, will be closely allied with a diversified program of growing spe cialized crops. New crops are need ed, and as a result of your experi ments, the production of European grapes promises to take a prominent place in the list tof horticultural crops for the sandhills. j ashes and sackcloth that Results being secured in the ex- | some of the prophets of gloom have perimental vineyard make the pos- i been antici pk)l ing Slave l|ien ;scai- When the time came for the Southern Pines and Pinehurst men to sing for the broadcasting stations the announcements were most favor able and explicit. The radio audi ence was informed that the wire would now forward selections by an unique organization of business and professional men of Southern Pines and Pinehurst, North Carolina, that greatest golf center in the world, and that the songs as presented were out of the ordinary, and true to the soil and climate whence this bunch of interesting pilgrims had come. The Mayor of Southen Prines, the president of the Chamber of Com merce of the village, Dr. McBrayer, Mr. Giles, the leader, formerly prom inent as a trainer and leader in New York, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere where the singers had appeared, and other men of prominence were to be heard. And every time a new sub*- je?^ was pnnoiinred the f»nnoiincpr introduced his unusual assemblage of artists. The letters and telegrams that came to these Sandhill singers was most pleasing to them, for their reception on the air was wide-reach- ’ng and their responses piled up into great numbers. It was one of the most effective bits of publicity the Sandhills has ever received, and one that because of its novelty has been eiTective. It was high class, dignified, out of the ordinary, and gave the North some thing new to think about for a long time. The following men were in the Bi|>‘ Crops of Good I^ec^f Attract Visitins: Strangers in Droves. ! the results will be shown, and he I v/hoie story of making these grapes I '^xplaijied to those visitors who care () l<H)k into the matter. The car | ..ill stop several hours at each sta- | ; ion. and any informa ion that can|^^^^^^' ; e given will be ready. It is the | First tenors: Mayor Sam Richard- I iio’ic* of the company that the fai- | son, A. L. Adams. \V. L. Dunlap, .lers in each coinmunit:/ where the | Second tenors: Thad S. Page, Da- ciir stops may take s'uffii.ient inter- ; \'id Packard, Levi PacKard, E. A. est in the possibilities of European : (larrett. '.'•lapes ‘o arrange fcr an experi-; Baritones: Tom Kelly, R. P. Shep ard, Shields Cameron. Basses: Frank Buchan, L. B. Mc- roV)acco is booming Moore County, i j^i^ntal vineyard in the neighbor hood. BIG SPECIAL SALE sibilities of establishing a graoe in dustry in the Carolina sandhills a AT VASS MERCANTILE, i very promising proposition, and ^he starting of commercial development On Saturday at 9 o’clock, the Vass is the next logical step. Mercantile Company, in Vass, will | The economic advantages of com- open with a big special sale that | paratively cheap lands and close promises to attract a big business, j proximity to the consuming markets This store has learned through long 1 of the East and South make a de years of experience how to provide I velopment of this industry appear as for the wants of its patrons, and j a very alluring opportunity. How- with the closer prices that are stead- i ever, grape growing is a specialized iV coming the big store has arrang- I industT*y, requiring specialized atten tion. Although a section may pos sess remarkable natural and eco nomic advantages for grape grow- ered by the live winds of the new order. The peach crop is nearing its fin ish in the Sandhills, but it has been one of the most satisfactory ever I it is a fact that the Sandhills of j Brayer, L. B. McBrayer, Jr., E. Els- .\loore County have tried out the na- i worth Giles. cive American grapes and their by- ; Accompanist.: i^rs. E. Elsworth brids, and that the diseases and yesLS have in the past put out of ! Wedn.^sdav afterncon they ' 1 commission all the vineyards, even j v,^.„,,^i^,aste<l from Station WLIT, td one of the most profitable oppor tunities for the folks around Vass to secure their supplies that was ever available to them. This is a special chance. Every thing has been marked at a price to move it, and knowing what price has to be made to move things the man agement has not hesitated at putting he figures on. Good goods, such as harvested, with a good yield in all production has been of j f,.„m 5:30 to 6 o’clock, magnitude in this neighborhood. Ln-i.^^ ^ Brothers’ store. From 7 to the fields except around Aberdeen, and the Seaboard stretch, where some of the orchards were badly hit by frost during the big snow in the spring. But in other sections the yield was good, the fruit of good quality, and the prices were above the ordinary. From a little below two dollars up to the neighborhood of three the growers realized, and fortunately the European grape is not more resistant to disease than 8 o’clock they broadcasted from Sta tion WIP, from the Blue Room in ing, there is required a certain jthe demand was s:eady all the time, amount of horticultural knowledge on the part of the grower before success may be achieved. Experi ence makes it advisable to caution growers against trushing in blindly to grow a new crop on a large scale the American types are. But it is Beniamin Franklin Hotel where also a fact -that with every year the j stopping. Thursday morning at 9:oO u’ciotK Federal and State agricultural de partments of agriculture get a bet ter knowledge of how to deal with the enemies of fruit culture of all the Sixteen had an engagement with ^he Victor Talking Machine Com- , panv in Camden, N. J., where they sorts, and because m the past the , ^ are always in stock at the Vass Mer- ! without first acquainting themselves antile Company, and clerks who with the business of producing and know how to help in selecting the things that are wanted, will make the purchase of summer supplies an easy task. Staple and fancy goods of all sorts, and as everybody knows marketing th^crop. Grape growing is a specialized crop industry in which quality in the commodity, quality in the preparation of the commodity, and quality in market- pretty well what the Vass Mercan- | are necessary for success. This tile Company handles this sale can necessitates a greater amount of be judged beforehand. Be there when the sale begins, and drop in whenever you can at any time. capital per acre, more judginent and (Continued on Page Three.) The final figures are not yet known, but probably a million and a quarter dollars will represent the peach crop this summer, pretty well scattered over the district. Already the effects are felt, for the tone of confidence in the balance of the year is noted every where. The dewberry crop started to bring in some money. Peaches dump a lot more on top of that, tobacco is coming off in good style now, and cotton looks first rate with a price of around 17 cents. Building was never more active, and everybody has work at good wages. The winter promises to be the best mammoth concern, and they make everything in their various buildings, covering many acres, connected with talking machines, excepting only the ■rape men could not stop the ail ments is no reason why it cannot be done with the greater knowledge possessed now. The European giapes far exceed j needles. One large building, some in quantity of production in the j qj. g hundred feet, is devoted to United States the grapes of Amen- | j-ecording studios, can type produced. California is the j After broadcasting from Philadel- foremost grower among the states, i frequent I’equqists came to and ships 50 or 60 thousand cars a ; broadcast in New York and they year. This is the biggest fruit , several engagements for product of any kind by any state of | Thursday afternoon and evening and >he Union . California ships to the Friday evening. They had to Atlantic Seaboard more grapes than three engagements for Thurs- all the rest of the states ship any evening because after finishing place. The answer must be that Victor studio they could not California grapes of the European New York in time to take care (Please turn to page 7) (Continued on Page Three.) 3 < f j f- I; ■i t' : t>i I \ (Please turn to page 7)
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